An investigation was carried out to find out the extent of changes occurred in two safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) cultivars in response to water deficit stress. Two safflower cultivars namely IL.111 and Isfahan were used for the study. Thirty days after sowing, plants were grown under soil moisture corresponding to 100, 85, 70 and 55% field capacity for next 30 days. Water deficit treatments significantly decreased the shoot length, shoot dry matter, root dry matter, relative growth rate, leaf relative water content (LRWC) and leaf water potential (W W ), whereas root length, root-to-shoot ratio, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant compounds such as ascorbic acid (AA), a-tocopherol (a-Toc) and reduced glutathione (GSH) and superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC 1.15.

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